Turkish stocks were set for their worst week since the aftermath of 2008's Lehman Brothers collapse on Friday as concerns ...

Over a decade ago Turkey’s strongman compared a wave of protests, which began with calls to save a popular Istanbul park from ...

Hundreds of people protested outside an Istanbul courthouse Saturday, calling for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to resign, as Turkey entered its fourth day of civil unrest. Violent clashes ...

Just days before Turkey’s main opposition party was set to select its next presidential candidate, the leading contender, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, was arrested and jailed, effectively removing ...

Umit Bektas/Reuters Supported by By Ben Hubbard Reporting from Istanbul Turkey has been plunged into a political crisis after the authorities arrested Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and the ...

Turkey’s opposition leader accused Erdogan of “trying to drift Turkey to an unlawful pathway.” Speaking to CNN’s Bianna Golodryga on Monday, CHP leader Özgür Özel said those protesting ...

Demonstrations took place in more than a dozen cities including Turkey’s biggest city Istanbul and the capital Ankara, the ministry said in a statement. It said the detentions were made to ...

The recent arrest of Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and main rival of President Erdoğan has sparked the largest protests in Turkey in a decade, with over 1,100 people detained in ...

More Imamoglu was arrested and sent to prison, in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, March 24, 2025. Lights on top of the Yeni mosque reads in Turkish: "Don't forget your afterlife". In a statement posted ...

Jailing of Istanbul mayor prompts biggest protests in a decade Opposition targets TV broadcasters, advertisers, media owners Accuses pro-government media of ignoring the protests Turkey ranks ...

By Ben Hubbard Ben Hubbard covers Turkey and the surrounding region. For more than four decades, Turkey has been fighting an armed insurgency by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., a ...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey, bringing an end to more than 40 years of bloodshed. The imprisoned leader of the Kurdish militant group ...